What are the software skills i require for robotics?

Question

I want to learn robotics and thus want to know which our the different software skills that I will require in robotics. For robot motion control, perception, navigation etc.

Answer 1

Depending on the board architecture, you can try to suit your education to it. For example, Arduino is programmed with C/C++, whie Raspberry Pi - with Python.

Answer 2

Depending on the scale of your project :)

I'd recommend starting with a simple LED manipulation or servo-motor perhaps. I can't really say anything about Arduino, but RPi has a whole RPi.GPIO module, which should handle most simple operations using the GPIO pin set:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RPi.GPIO

A note in this link is important - time-critical applications should not rely too much on Python! At least not with no additional tweaking...

Answer 3

well i prefer Bascom AVR.... its pretty good but it only for ATmel chip

Answer 4

What will I need for it's navigation and perception?
Is AI somethng that I shud be considering?
How do I start with it?
What do I need to learn to program a robot for tracing a path ,patter recognition ,trajectory follower etc??